Joyce, or the Forgetting of Ithaca
Joyce condemned the novel to survive as journey, fertile ruin, and reinvented language.
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Books win (very rarely)
I always thought Rushdie would not survive, but the one who issued the fatwa ended up dying first.
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A Letter from T. S. Eliot on the Language of Poetry
In what language does a poet truly write when his voice belongs to more than one?
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The Baudelaire Spirit
Charles Baudelaire is the greatest poetic spirit of Western lyricism since the 19th century.
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Prose from the Wunderkammer II: ‘Ulysses’ (Limited Editions Club, 1935)
A volume that embodies a sublime deception: the clash between Joyce’s avant-garde and the mythical silence of Matisse, who illustrated ‘Ulysses’ without reading it.
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Caverns
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend’s legendary hidden library in the nineties.
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Moves
About traveling with books, especially when they are like fragments of a writer’s life, chapters of a biography whose meaning matters only to oneself.
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Collisions
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.
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From ‘Clyde Fans’ to ‘Goodbye, my Havana’. Notes from a graphic novel reader
A vindication of the adult graphic novel, from Seth to Bechdel, criticizing didacticism and celebrating visual narrative eloquence.
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Qumran, the Magic Word
The Qumran manuscripts reveal the life and beliefs of an ancient Jewish sect, with apocalyptic texts, strict rules, and mysteries that remain unsolved.